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History · New Union

12% of New Union’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1936 on.

0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about New Union’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of New Union are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s New Union, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Union’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Aurora
1836–1905
Alice
1894–1903
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AliceDoolansUnion
Gone or out of use
Aurora Post Officepost officePleasant Hill SchoolschoolUnion Schoolschool
1cemetery inside New Union
Walls Chapel

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

New Union, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Union yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

New Union is a census-designated place in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, New Union had a population of 1,019.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 955 to 1,019 (+7%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

New Union, 1836 to 1936

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1836Post officeThe Aurora post office opens
  3. 1894Post officeThe Alice post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Alice post office closes
  6. 1905Post officeThe Aurora post office closes
  7. 1936On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

New Union on the map, 1936 to 1983

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Union. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Union on the 1936 USGS mapNew Union on the 1958 USGS mapNew Union on the 1976 USGS mapNew Union on the 1983 USGS map1936Mountainboro sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Union.

Famous people

Famous people close to New Union

Nobody well known was born in New Union itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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YelawolfAmerican rapper · b. 1979
Beth GrantAmerican actress · b. 1949
Roy MooreAmerican jurist and politician · b. 1947
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Mathew KnowlesAmerican music executive, businessman, record p… · b. 1952
Angela LittleAmerican actress · b. 1972
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Charles Clyde EbbetsAmerican photographer · b. 1905
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Bristow CoveIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBoaz4 historic placesC+

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.